Alonzo milliken



(No Model.)

A. MILLIKEN.

Button.`

No. 234,684. Patented Nov. 23,1880.

@NEED ASTATES ALONZO MILLIKEN, OF BROOKLYN, NEW'YORK.

BUTTON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 234,684, dated November23, 1880.

Application filed June 25, 1880. A(No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, ALONZO MILLIKEN, of Brooklyn, in the county of Kingsand State of New York, have invented an Improvement in Buttons, ot'which the following is a specitication.

Pearl and other buttons have been made with metal shanks, and these haveusually been attached to a metal disk that has been introduced into arecess and spread ont so as to hold the shank to the button, or else theends of the wire have been spread into a dovetailed recess at the backof the button.

l make use of a button-disk having a hole through it for the receptionot' the shank and a recess in the face of the button-disk for thereception ot' a plug` or cap-piece that closes the opening at the end ofthe shank and nishes the surface of the button. The shank is made ot asheet-metal tube closed at one end, similar to a blank-cartridge case.This is tlattened at one end and pierced to forni the eye, and the openend of the tubeis spread to form a flange that secures the shank in thebutton.

In the drawings, Figure l is a section ofthe button complete. Figs. 2and 4 representthe hut-ton with wire shanks. ,Figs 3 and-5 represent theblank for the tubular shank andthe shank in section.

The drawings represent buttons of larger size than usually employed.

The buttonidisk c is to be. of mother-ot'pearl or other suitablematerial. A central hole is bored through the same for the stem b ot'the shank c. This shank is preferably made ot' a sheet-metal tube, asseen in Fig. 3, flattened and perforated to form the eye, as shown inFig. l, and seetionally in Fig. 5, and the tubuplace.

lar end is passed into the hole in the buttondisk and the end spread toform a shoulder or offset that retains the shank in the button-disk.Sometimes the ordinary wire shank in the form shown in Fig. 2, with. thetwo parts of' the wire passed through the hole and the ends spread, maybe used, or the wire passing through the hole in the buttondisk may besingle, as in Fig. 4.

The button-disk is recessed in its face in line with the hole for theshank, and into this recess a plug, t', is inserted, which forms thecentral ornament ofthe face ot' the button and closes up the recess thatreceives the end of the shank. This plug;` is to be cemented into Thisconstructionallows for the shank being` secured in a very trm manner,and insures a inished appearance to the surface ot' the hut-ton.

I claim as my invention- 1.. As an improvement in buttons, thebutton-disk having a central hole and recess, in combination with theshank, the end of which is spread within the recess, and the plug t',in-

trodnced into the recess and secured therein,

A. MILLlKEN. Witnesses:

Gao. T. PINGKNEY, CHAs. H. SMITH.

